Guns, Congress and Murphy's Law

Rep. Tim Murphy’s sensible bill on mental health and guns is unlikely to become law.

Rupert Murdoch apologizes for suggesting Ben Carson would be a 'real black president'

Clinton server hack attempts came from China, Korea, Germany

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server, containing an electronic inventory of some 55,000 pages of emails from her stint as secretary of state, was repeatedly hit by attempted cyberattacks originating in China, South Korea and Germany in 2014, according to a congressional document obtained by The Associated Press.

Rupert Murdoch suggests Obama isn't 'real black president'

The media mogul makes the comment while comparing GOP candidate Ben Carson to the president.

FBI says it 'disrupted' dozens of potential militants

FBI counterterrorism investigators followed “dozens and dozens” of potential militants around the United States full time during the summer and “disrupted” many of them, FBI Director James Comey told a congressional committee on Thursday. Comey, who testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs along with Nick Rasmussen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said U.S. investigators are aware of dozens of U.S.-based Islamic militant suspects who

France train attack hero Stone stabbed in California, Air Force says

The attack took place sometime between midnight and 1 a.m. on Thursday, according to a U.S. Air Force spokeswoman, who declined to release more information. Local television station KCRA reported that Stone, during a fight in the street near several popular bars in the mid-town section of Sacramento, was stabbed multiple times in the torso.

Search ends for survivors of hurricane-hit U.S. cargo ship

By Susan Cooper Eastman JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday ended its search for missing crew of the cargo ship El Faro that sank off the Bahamas last week after sailing into the path of Hurricane Joaquin. An exhaustive air and sea search for possible survivors was called off at sunset, six days after communication was lost with the ship and the 33 people aboard, the

Clinton's Wall Street reform plan has tax on high-frequency trading

By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will propose a tax on high-frequency trading, her campaign said late Wednesday. The tax would target securities transactions with excessive levels of order cancellations, which destabilize the markets, a campaign aide said. “The growth of high-frequency trading has unnecessarily burdened our markets and enabled unfair and abusive trading strategies,” the aide said.